Felicia

Trump Bimbo of Amber

One of the younger members of her generation, Felicia is probably one of the few Amberites still able to make a fairly accurate claim to her age: twenty-eight. She has an impulsive nature and incomplete training in her abilities which, combined with her high native power, has from time to time produced some rather explosive results. ("Oops, I guess that was a bad idea, huh?")

Felicia has an interest in most things artsy, from guitar playing to painting to metalworking to architecture to fashion. She has repeatedly claimed to have no interest in being like the elder Amberites (sometimes even to their faces), but they don't seem to mind too much: she's still their preferred source for gossip about her cousins and friends.

Description

Felicia is slender and fair skinned with coppery colored hair, and dark blue eyes. Always with a keen eye for fashion, she has aquired precognitive shapeshifting clothes which ensure she is always appropriately dressed for whatever is coming next.

Recently, Felicia decided that redheaded descendents of Oberon were behaving particularly eggregiously, even for Amberites, and removed herself from their number by dying her hair jet black. She's also opted for the biker look and now generally sports a black leather jacket, black jeans, and a red shirt for everyday dressing. Her naturally fair complexion adds to the effect, but she hasn't gone in for chains, piercing, or spiky hair. Yet.

Background

Felicia is Caine's daughter, though she was raised primarily by her mother, Derrista, in shadow since Caine was seldom there. The shadow itself was a lot like Victorian England, but much cleaner since it lacked any sort of black powder weapons or combustion engines. Her somewhat sheltered background left her a little behind initially [1], but she's been catching up on everything she's missed. Since becoming closer to Torquil, she's taken quite an interest in high technology, which she finds absolutely fascinating. ("Hmm, I wonder if I could put a trump trap on your screensaver..")

Felicia's arrival in Amber was far from the typical (if there is such a thing). She'd lived her whole life in her home shadow, never having even heard of Amber. One day, she was painting a picture of a mountain[2] and stepped back to examine it. She stared at it very hard [3], and suddenly to her dismay, found herself in a forest with a number of horrible dogs [4] who promptly chased her up a tree. Well, to make a long story short, she was found by Julian, who had no idea who she was, but recognized the jewelled dagger she was carrying as belonging to Caine. Well, this probably meant one of two things: either she was under his protection or she'd killed him for it. A quick trump call to Caine revealed the the former, rather than the later was the case, and he acknowledged that she was, in fact, his daughter, thus breaking the standing pattern of children of Amberites being little images of their Amber parent. [5]

Caine promptly arranged for her to receive some training in the art of trump (so as to prevent further mishaps). Unfortunately, his extreme dislike (distrust) of Fiona, lead him to arrange for Dworkin to be her instructor. Now Dworkin's a really enteraining guy to talk to, unless you happen to want some useful out of him -- he's not exactly the model teacher. Poor Felicia has been finding out again and again that Dworkin failed to mention little things here and there the might possibly be construed as important. What was he thinking? We'll never know.

Points and Powers

Felicia has lots of Psyche and a whole lot of (i.e., advanced) trump.

Her points, as bid for in the original auction were:

Psyche		51	(1st rank)
Strength	nb
Endurance	14	(4th rank)
Warfare		 1	(5th rank)

Since then she has discovered more and more trump abilities, as well as some vagulely Pattern based abilities that allow her to break all kinds of things, including the fabric of shadow. She's also acquired a pet fire angel, Callidora. (Picture courtesy of Meilin.)

Adventures and Achievments

``Remember: Only hold them by the blue end.'' What do you get when you leave one conjurer and spy alone with one talented but inexperienced trump artist for too long? The veapon: it slices; it dices; it shapeshifts into a wide variety of stylish weapons; if you touch the red part, it puts you in a trump trap; it even turns into a moderately sized red bird (with blue feet, of course). We'll take four.

Mary...

I'm naked, but I'm bulletproof. Felicia, Keverian, and Torquil retire in a comfy shadow, after a long hard day being Amberites. Do they enjoy their well earned rest in peace? Unfortunately, no: they are ambushed by Logrus sword wielding Chaos demons! Felicia has unfortunately been sleeping in the nude. Luckily for her, she realizes that she forgot to take off her "invulnerable to convetional weapons, confer quality on owner" earrings, and wisely leaps through the window to the ground outside, where Keverian gentlemanly supplies her with a blanket. Torquil, however, chose poorly: he slept in nothing but his clothes and woke up with a Logrus sword in his chect. (And that's got to hurt...)

Ask Felicia

"How tacky." (A common comment on Reena)

"That's it. I'm never rescuing anybody again."

[1] When Reena was seducing Keverian, Felicia was concerned that Reena might be attempting to get her hands on a desendent of Corwin and Oberon for use in some unspecified mischief involving either the Pattern of Amber or Corwin's Pattern and blood. Keverian assured her that it would not be a problem, he'd use a condom. "A condom?" says Felicia, "What's that?" "Ask Mikele to explain," says Keverian, "I'm a little busy at the moment."
[2] It was Kolvir, but she didn't know that at the time.
[3] It was also a trump, but she didn't know that then either.
[4] Hellhounds: This was in Arden. Guess who started with bad stuff?
[5] The first in a long line of exceptions, as it turns out, but that's getting ahead of things...

She's got some secret stuff on the web, but I don't know the URL offhand and besides, it's passworded.